Activism And Advocacy Quotes & Sayings

To love, or to have loved, - this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment — Victor Hugo

Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country. — Jack Nicklaus

To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands. — Kahlil Gibran

From a killer to victim, what a twisted thing! — Deyth Banger

We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we are, wherever we are. We take the fire of action into our hearts. And we take it into our bodies. And we stand, here and now, to make it known that we are here, and here we will stay. Our fear does not consume us. Their fire will not consume us. We take that fire, and we make it our own. — Kelly J. Cogswell

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people - and they have. — Morgan Carroll

Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art. — Erica Jong

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause. — John Capecci And Timothy Cage

the tuition's true payoff the connections, not the education, — Jessica Knoll

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. — Howard Baker

Luck is not a word the Society encourages. And it's not something we have much of out here. — Ally Condie

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover — Rexford Tugwell

The greatest vision of sin that a person can
ever receive is to look at the cross. — Billy Graham

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism — Jill Blackmore

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence. — Daryl Hannah

He was an optimist. Every month, every week, he chose to open his eyes, to live another day in the world. He did it when he was feeling so awful that sometimes the pain seemed to transport him to another state, one in which everything, even the past that he worked so hard to forget, seemed to fade into a gray watercolor wash. — Hanya Yanagihara

The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It's where we meet the strong or subtle cultural censors who attempt to define what community, race, class, or gender can or cannot speak, to tell us which stories are told and valued and which are not. In short, it's where we're reminded of the power of personal stories and the power of the storyteller. — John Capecci And Timothy Cage

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — Elie Wiesel

In politics, there are no friends. — Marian Wright Edelman

The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference - by offering
living proof. — John Capecci And Timothy Cage